We really hope that Realtime Worlds’ living APB avatar, Josh, is getting paid quite a few duckets, as he’s not only getting the future-punk rocker haircut of an in-game character, but also a septum piercing, not to mention two giant wings tattooed on his back. He’s being called “The Human Avatar,” and, well, he’s a living advertisement. Fans of the game (and generally folks with cruel hearts ) have been voting on various stages of the gentleman’s development over the past few weeks at the project’s official website

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It’s rare for a console to get a spec upgrade in the middle of its life.

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It’s rare that creator curators in the LittleBigPlanet community are rewarded for their homebrewed platforming projects — a policy Media Molecule seems to want to reverse. Over the past few weeks, the developer has been handing out awards in various categories to the game’s wide base of level designers. In a recent PlayStation.Blog post , the studio wrapped these awards up into a single presentation, cheekily titled the “2009 Sackies.” Check out the PlayStation.Blog post to see the full list of winners, including ” Roll Over Beethoven, ” which we think we can all agree is just the coolest thing ever

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The sentence following this sentence will be completely unprecedented for this humble news blog: We completely endorse the practice of spending real-life money on virtual articles of clothing — provided that clothing is the jersey seen above. Sure, black and pink jerseys may not be your style , but when you purchase that shirt in PlayStation Home’s EA Sports Complex, the entirety of your $2.00 goes to the charity of New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees , the Brees Dream Foundation, which raises money for breast cancer awareness.

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